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Nakhla

Perhaps it really doesn't matter, but a second meteorite dealer is offering 
Nakhla for sale with the punchline of "when it fell, it killed a dog - ouch!"

Nakhla is my "favorite" meteorite for many reasons.  As meteorites go, it's 
beautiful. A fresh cut surface seems to glow under even small magnification.  
Scientists have found more evidence of life on another planet - what other 
meteorite in your collection has that profound cache' ?  It's from Mars, a 
somewhat more exotically romantic origin than say....4Vesta.  It's got 
incredible legend behind it - first Egyptian meteorite, studied by some of 
the most historic meteoriticists in history, stolen from the Egyptians by a 
person posing as a Yale professor, even Monica Grady adds to the prestige of 
this rock with her donation last year of a specimen from the BNHM collection. 
 

But friends, it did not kill a dog.  And the long published typo of the TKW 
"forty stones of forty kilos" is wrong - there's only 9.9K.  I'm a tad 
sensitive on this subject having written about Nakhla in Meteorite! last year 
(May and August issues).   Since the two dealers plagiarizing Bob Haag's 
catalogue description of Nakhla (double - ouch!) advertise in M! it seems a 
safe assumption that they also subscribe and read it.   Perhaps "dead dogs" 
sell more meteorites, but what's the point of publishing research, reviewed 
by people like Hap McSween and Alan Rubin, if we are to ignore the results? 

Kevin Kichinka 

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